Hakim, The Dawn Maker — Zura Jishkariani — Your waiting is a loaded gun, Hakim. Yes, you’ll tell me now that caution is masturbation and bla bla bla, whatever your program spits out, but still — be careful, count it as friendly advice… Wh…

'— “How is it, to be so formless, like this sky? How is it to be alive, like a thousand times dead?” — from every speaker, the chorus of the new hit song.'

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Hakim, The Dawn Maker — Zura Jishkariani — Your waiting is a loaded gun, Hakim. Yes, you’ll tell me now that caution is masturbation and bla bla bla, whatever your program spits out, but still — be careful, count it as friendly advice… Wh…

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Patrick Autréaux - And I Write — Socrates on the Beach

new translation of @autreauxp.bsky.social up @ Socrates on the Beach ...

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I wrote about my experience of love—where intimacy has grown to feel unexpectedly political—and about parts of the N. Ireland I know. The binaries are more unstable than so often depicted. We're still in flux. I'd say the most personal and challenging piece I've written:

Who Among Us? — Jill Crawford My life partner and I are one half each of our home, the north of Ireland/Northern Ireland – as you prefer. Though far from the same, we fit mostly. Sometimes we can’t bear being close. We battle f…

"This relationship is causing us to grapple with questions and burdens that belong to us and don’t ... We are attempting to decipher a puzzle that’s perhaps unsolvable ..."

Who Among Us? — @crawjill.bsky.social

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"He was born a Catholic, and I was born a Presbyterian. We were raised on opposite ends of the Glenshane Pass. Until his teens, he knew only one Protestant family, who’d lived in a crumbling mansion."
Who Among Us? — @crawjill.bsky.social

Who Among Us? — Jill Crawford My life partner and I are one half each of our home, the north of Ireland/Northern Ireland – as you prefer. Though far from the same, we fit mostly. Sometimes we can’t bear being close. We battle f…

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20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

Patience is life: Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni “We always say that the Mahri is the mirror of his rider. If you want to stare into the rider and see what lies hidden within, look to his mount, his thoroughbred. Now that I look at you more close…

"And while the waters of the vineyard spring may wash clean the body, only the desert can cleanse the soul."

ICYMI I wrote about a book that was sitting on my bookshelf far too long.

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Patience is life: Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni “We always say that the Mahri is the mirror of his rider. If you want to stare into the rider and see what lies hidden within, look to his mount, his thoroughbred. Now that I look at you more close…

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Patience is life: Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni “We always say that the Mahri is the mirror of his rider. If you want to stare into the rider and see what lies hidden within, look to his mount, his thoroughbred. Now that I look at you more close…

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🎨 David Hockney

Pope Leo today: "Blessed are the peacemakers."

"Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

"Across Skeleton Tree, we find Cave chained to the weight of consciousness, struck by wave after wave of emotion that at once draws him back into memory and thrusts him forward to the bleeding edge of the present." @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social on Nick Cave

Darker With The Dawn — Adam Steiner HERE COMES THE MAN They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.—Job 5:14 EDIT EDIT EDIT All is darkness. A human form crouches down, hands reach about its bare …

"In the race to outdo one another, to colonize the blank space of the moon for its own sake, to exploit and shape non-human life comes to dominate our worldview, like a false god, we preach both survival and extinction at both ends ..."

— Adam Steiner

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Darker With The Dawn — Adam Steiner HERE COMES THE MAN They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.—Job 5:14 EDIT EDIT EDIT All is darkness. A human form crouches down, hands reach about its bare …

Darker With The Dawn — Adam Steiner
— an extract from @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social's book about Nick Cave.

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PLAGIARI[S]M Opens: Monday, March 16, 2026 12:00 AM Ends: Sunday, April 19, 2026 11:59 PM Description: We are accepting creative texts under the banner of “plagiarism.” You may make of this subject what yo…

ALSO! it's the last week to send work for our PLAGIARISM series (edited by @benlibman.bsky.social )

details here:

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"Substance abuse can bond people. But it’s also anhedonia. There’s no glamour. "

I interviewed the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his debut #keshed @ortacpress.bsky.social. We chatted about his process, the complexities of writing class & addiction, blistering sentences, T.Harrison, Dylan Thomas, Pat Barker, punk poets & more. All thanks @minorliteratures.bsky.social.

“The last thing the world needs is another middle-aged white man writing about masculinity, politics and whatever”: An Interview with Stu Hennigan — Susanna Crossman Stu Hennigan’s debut novel Keshed is a dark, complex, and visceral exploration of class, belonging, addiction and fatherhood. And yet, in the words of Hennigan himself, Keshed is at its heart &#822…

"Environment shapes people, language and stuff. But I am wary of publishing-speak ... Often these labels become restrictive, they mean you’re only allowed to write about one thing. Stay in your lane ..."

@stuhennigan.bsky.social x @susannacrossman.bsky.social

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Galileo’s moon sketch

Hummingbirds looking a bit rough this year.

In praise of ordinary people: Maybe Even Happiness by Ludovic Bruckstein Imagine a travelling fair in a small provincial town, complete with all of the expected food stalls and amusements. And there, amid the festivities, stands a small unassuming structure with a sign …

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In praise of ordinary people: Maybe Even Happiness by Ludovic Bruckstein, Alistair Ian Blyth #IstrosBooks
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In praise of ordinary people: Maybe Even Happiness by Ludovic Bruckstein, Alistair Ian Blyth #IstrosBooks
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Three books: Aside from my Heart All is Well by Héctor Abad, The Book of Homes by Andrea Bajani, and Restless was the Night and Other Stories by Buddhadeva Bose.

More new books: I've never read Hector Abad but this sounds great (thanks @archipelagobooks.bsky.social), The Book of Homes features a quote from my review of Bajani's If You Kept a Record of Sins (@deepvellum.bsky.social),
and a long awaited collection by Buddhadeva Bose (tr @arunava.bsky.social)

A trail winds through high alpine meadows under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. A small lake reflects the sky and mountains in the background still have a few midsummer snow patches.

Rio Grande headwaters, San Juan Mountains.
#waterislife

"Duras deconstructs language with a child’s confidence. In her earlier films, she renegotiated the contract between the eye and ear, paring cinema down to its irreducible elements and doing away with superfluities ..."

Duras Variations — Daniel Elkind

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“Is it a film?” asks Depardieu early on. “It would have been a film,” Duras replies. But the story she tells in her 1977 film Le camion is hypothetical: a would-be film cast in the conditional tense.